The most Instagrammed foods around the world

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Say what you will about people who Instagram their dinner before even so much as considering raising it to their lips, but their pre-dinner ritual has become as much a part of modern culinary etiquette as pretending to draw on your hand to signal for the bill.

And what's more: it's global.

As illustrated by the above graphic, taking a photo of your food, drowning it in filters and posting it to social media photo-sharing site Instagram is happening around the world.

Perhaps surprisingly, it is New York that accounts for the highest percentage share of picturesque bacon (followed by London), while the east coast city also takes the crown for sushi, with LA second, Bangkok third, Milan fourth and Tokyo fifth.

Not all foods were spread quite so thinly across the globe. It seems that currywurst is almost exclusively eaten/photographed in Germany, with all top five cities for Instagramming the sausage meal in Germany.

Within the UK, it is hard to gauge any regional variations on food photography, as London dominates the nation's share of Instagram users, however, one point of note is that Leicester is particularly fond of jerk chicken (14 per cent of the UK's jerk chicken images were taken here).